Leah

Writer, reviewer, traveler, and book lover.
A Bookworm's Guide to the U.S. coming Fall 2027!
Represented by Amelia Appel of @TriadaUS.

[Leah @reading_while]

Hi! I'm Leah. I'm a voracious reader, traveler, and writer.
🌻 You can follow my work at my blog (https://t.co/bpSMOVvuaR) or on Insta at whilereadingandwalking.
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[Leah @reading_while]

@dom_lucre “forced.” then don’t play lol. this is an awesome offshot and no different from playing as Freya or Atreus in the last game. Kratos also ended the last game in what’s finally an ok place so immediately convincing him to fight more gods somehow? naw

[Agence France-Presse @afpfr]

💭 🎬 L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, qui s'est fait mondialement connaître avec la bande dessinée et le film "Persepolis", est décédée à l'âge de 56 ans, a annoncé son entourage jeudi à l'AFP.

[Leah @reading_while]

This Pride Month, I am not engaging in nonsense about bi/pan characters not being queer enough. They're queer even if the queer couple never actually gets together. Even if the whole story is a bi woman dating a straight man. It is 2026, man. We have real battles to fight.

[Leah @reading_while]

@sapphicbook Addie LaRue is bi if that's what you mean? while it wouldn't be my #1 pride month rec by that author, Addie is bisexual, and the book focusing on a relationship she has with a man doesn't make that less true?

[Leah @reading_while]

@_smromero my jealousy is so strong

[Leah @reading_while]

@BlytheSummer3 @giveashitnature It's very rare to get bitten by one, because their fangs are so tiny and they don't tend to attack humans. Given spider identification is difficult, if you're getting bitten all the time, it's probably a different spider.

[Leah @reading_while]

@bowlympicshero @DanWolken also people are less likely to watch into your restaurant with higher prices. that’s likely why people are leaning into it.

[Leah @reading_while]

@bowlympicshero @DanWolken service charges go to servers. they’re as guaranteed as tips, which is to say that an unscrupulous boss can technically steal them.

[Leah @reading_while]

@bowlympicshero @DanWolken the point is to make sure the servers are paid fairly. i don’t see the point of making it possible to tip badly when they’re going to be slammed. lots of restaurants make service charges standard instead of tipping for that reason.

[Leah @reading_while]

@bowlympicshero @DanWolken you’re right, let’s do “service charge”

[Leah @reading_while]

@realjwebb @TVInsider feels like maybe you dont understand survivor

[Leah @reading_while]

@bowlympicshero @DanWolken by making it a tip, they make it clearer that US customers don’t need to tip anything over the receipt price

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

The United States is abusing its role as a World Cup host.

They issued heavily restricted visas to the Iranian team, which is scheduled to play on U.S. soil. They also failed to issue visas to @BafanaBafana in a timely manner.

Either they are incapable of managing the process properly, or they are acting in bad faith.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Musk might literally pull off the biggest scam in history

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Everyone's worried about honeybees, but the American bumblebee has declined by 89% in the last 20 years.

Bombus pensylvanicus was once the most common bumblebee in the southern United States. It's now functionally extinct in eight states (Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Oregon) and down 99% in New York.

The honeybee, the species most "save the bees" campaigns are organized around, is not native to North America. It was brought over by European colonists in the 1600s as livestock for honey production. It is managed, bred, transported across the country in trucks, and is doing fine. Beekeeping is an agricultural industry, not a conservation effort.

The American bumblebee is what we actually have. It pollinates wild plants honeybees can't, including ones with deep flowers and ones that require buzz pollination (a technique honeybees don't perform). Tomatoes, blueberries, eggplants, cranberries, and countless wildflowers depend on it.

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned to list the species as endangered in 2021. The federal review is now in its fifth year. The species is still not protected.

Three things help.

1. Plant native flowers, the kind bumblebees evolved with (asters, goldenrod, milkweed, native sunflowers, beebalm, mountain mint).

2. Leave standing dead plant stems through winter, that's where queens overwinter.

3. Stop spraying for mosquitoes, those sprays kill every pollinator they touch.

The bees we built an industry to "save" are not the bees that need saving. The ones that do are quietly disappearing while we celebrate the ones that aren't.

[Nick Whyman @NickWhyman]

New F1 meme is born with this marshall jumping through the wall after clearing debris off the track.
#F1

[The Only Marc Favell @marcfavell]

I am completely exhausted and infuriated that even in 2026, I am still forced to worry about Covid every single time I walk into a medical setting because the vast majority of healthcare workers don't even bother to wear N95 respirators. It is incredibly disheartening to witness firsthand the people I am supposed to trust with my health acting like an airborne virus doesn't exist, remaining stuck in the droplet dogma of the past. I should not know more about transmission dynamics and how it spreads than these very same people, it is simply not acceptable and should not still be happening in 2026. If the consequences of ignoring basic safety only fell on the people making those choices, it would be one thing. Instead, from what I’ve personally experienced, it is the vulnerable patients who end up paying the price for a total lack of accountability from the very professionals who are supposed to protect us.

End of this rant! 😡

[𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕊𝕪𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕟 💾 @reset_by_peer]

Watching all of Sheinbaum’s rapid fire accomplishments in Mexico and Mamdani’s similar run in NYC makes me think that, despite all of his flaws, a Bernie Sanders presidency would have been deeply transformative for America.

[Leah @reading_while]

@pamemerson13 @Amtrak right?? because i legit i would not pay the same amount for a half bus half train ride

[Leah @reading_while]

just heard them announce at Union Station that @Amtrak trains from chicago to BOSTON and NEW YORK have been converted into BUSES????? they did that to us chicago to detroit and it was miserable. at that point imma cancel the whole thing

[Leah @reading_while]

@Amtrak the numbers were not on the screen. only two amtrak trains listed. when this happened to my train to detroit nothing was listed, not even “canceled”